Haseeb Khan | Manchester Metropolitan University (original) (raw)
I am a PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. My research looks at Muslim communities in Britain, especially North-West England, from around the late 19th/early 20th centuries. I am particularly interested in thinking about "British Muslim identity" as the concept really developed in an academic sense post Rushdie affair. There have been arguments that before this point, Muslims in Britain identified themselves or were identified by State and Society more by country of origin or race, rather than religion. I am trying to rethink this, as there is evidence that Muslims had a sense of collective identity based on Islam before the 1980s, arguably even a century before. The groups I am seeking to explore include the Liverpool convert community (LMI), led by Abdullah Quilliam, Muslim sailors (often referred to as "lascars"), Arab merchants in Manchester (included Syrian and Moroccan merchants - who were variably Christian, Jewish and Muslim), and also Muslim women from the time (this included "ayahs" or Indian nannies, as well as converts). I also hope to situate my thesis within established historiography on issues such as religious change, gender and feminism in 19th century Britain, which despite all the work that has been done, often excluded Muslims and Islam. Encouragingly there is a growing interest and literature on the longer history of Islam in Britain.
I also work for the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage. Check out more information on the Centre's events, public lectures, blog, podcast and more https://mcphh.org/
Supervisors: Dr Shirin Hirsch and Professor Heather Shore
Address: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Haseeb Khan (2022): Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, Immigrants & Minorities., 2022
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, b... more Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First
Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by
Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu)
Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN
1800119828
Haseeb Khan (2022): Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, Immigrants & Minorities., 2022
Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community, b... more Review of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First
Mosque Community, by Yusuf Samih Asmay (Translated and Edited by
Yahya Birt, Riordan Macnamara and Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu)
Swansea, Claritas Books, 2021, 162 pp., £10.00 (paperback), ISBN
1800119828